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LGR - Space Taxi - Commodore 64 Game Review

LGR - Space Taxi - Commodore 64 Game Review

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Cab drivers in space? Oh yes, that's what you get in this Lunar Lander-like arcade game with a cab fare twist, for the C64 by Muse Software! KittyKittyGaming: This reminds me of a Taxi game on either Plastation 1 or 2. It might have been called something as simple as Taxi, but I don't exactly remember. What I do remember is driving into the water with my sister shouting at me -you're not going to find any passengers in the water-. But there was at least one person there waiting for a taxi. I also remember driving in a tunnel on train tracks and a passenger going -boo, you take too long- and jumping out. I can only imagine he went through the wall.
Date: 2022-04-14

Comments and reviews: 9


Holy shit!
This was one of my childhood favorites on good old Commodore 64.
I remember playing this many times on my cousin's place.
He had Commodore 64 with hundreds of games, which we tried as many randomly selected games as we can.
It was sweet.
: )
This game was fun, even with the very high difficultiness.
Played this game not long time ago & it's still very entertaining game after all these years.

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. holy crap, I bet my dad feels salty now! this is one of the first video games I remember playing along with Jumpman and the C64 port of Donkey Kong. He sold off his C64 and nearly all the gmaes on the super cheap. I was like. 2 or 3, so I don't remember if we had the box with Space Taxi, but man, I can't wait to see his face when I tell him how valuable Space Taxi is nowdays.
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Hey LGR have you ever played or heard of Moon Taxi for Xbox 360? It was a peculiar Xbox Live Arcade game featuring voiced over passengers telling stories as you navigate them to the moon. It was very straight forward but the fun was hearing the stories. I remember liking it but Ive never seen anyone else mention it. Unfortunately I doubt it has a physical release.
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Out of curiosity, did this come out before or after MUSE did Castle Wolfenstein? I just remember reading that one of the big deals about Castle Wolfenstein was it was one of the first games to use digitized voice, and I'm just wondering if this was made around the same time or made later or maybe even made before and if this game did it before Castle Wolfenstein.
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I had this back in the day on the C64. your right I thought the digitized voice was cool. did not have the box though, for the C64 we had a lot of um. copied games lol.
Unlike the earlier systems like the Atari 800 and 400xl as well as Coleco Vision for which we had a lot of software and most of the add on hardware.

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Now if only they could have found a way to squeeze some Bad Religion onto the soundtrack. Granted, it would all have to be pre--Suffer- stuff, but still. If they'd wanted to be really ironic, they could have synthesized a chiptune version of BR's -Frogger. - A missed opportunity, I'd say.
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Also worth trying if you have the hardware or can be bothered with the faff of emulating the old Mac OS is Space Cab. It was shareware (now abandonware) and made a lot later, so the graphics/sound is a lot better. Its downloadable on Macintosh Garden
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This game was the bane of my existence as a kid on the C64. My friends would compete in how far they could get. and those f-ing Hard levels are close to impossible. Gravity pulling on you from 4 sides PLUS winds and tight corridors. -shudders-
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Played it a lot and it frustrated the hell out of me as a kid. It was never responsive enough to my commands and as if it was not hard enough just to pilot the darn thing you had to avoid so much unfair crap it was just pure madness.
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